The
Global Partnerships on Gender and the Law hosted the Pan American
Conference on Transforming Women's Legal Status: Integrating Gender into
Legal Education and Legal Doctrine at the American University
Washington College of Law on November 3 - 6, 1997. The Conference
brought together over seventy academics, advocates, and university
officials from Latin America and the United States to examine Latin
American legal systems from the perspective of gender and to exchange
experiences regarding the challenge of integrating the intersecting
perspectives of gender and human rights into legal
doctrine and the law
school curriculum. The Conference agenda consisted
of a series of presentations, teaching demonstrations, round-table
discussions, and small group exercises and focused on both content and
pedagogy. Law teachers exchanged and developed teaching materials in
working groups organized by subject matter and returned to their
countries with the teaching skills and materials that they need for
integrating a gender and human rights perspective into their own course
work. The Pre-Conference publication consisted of articles written by feminist legal scholars
and women's rights advocates. The Conference proceedings were published
in the American University Washington College of Law Journal of Gender,
Social Policy and the Law.